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- Place made
- Launceston, Lutruwita (Tasmania)
- Medium
- maireener shells
- Dimensions
- 206.0 cm (length)
- Credit line
- Rhianon Vernon-Roberts Memorial Collection 2001
- Accession number
- 20011A2A
- Signature and date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Media category
- Jewellery
- Collection area
- Australian decorative arts and design - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
- Copyright
- Courtesy the artist
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Lola Greeno is a Trawlwoolway artist, craftswoman, community leader and curator who works in fibre, sculpture and installation, although she is best known for shell necklaces made from mairineer shells. Having learnt the technique of making shell-strung necklaces from her mother and maternal grandmother, Greeno continues this tradition by passing the techniques onto her children and grandchildren. For Greeno, one of a handful of Trawlwoolway artists practising this traditional art, the act of making her necklaces carries cultural knowledge while acting as an important symbol of survival and resistance for the Trawlwoolway people.
Made in 2001 in Launceston, Tasmania, this long-stranded necklace features an array of iridescent mairineer shells in contrasting green and pink tones. Greeno collects the shells from the Tasmanian coast using environmentally responsible techniques. Such shells are becoming more difficult to find, and this is believed to be due to the loss of the giant kelp forests around Tasmania’s coast as a result of rising ocean temperatures.
Rebecca Evans, Curator of Decorative Arts & Design
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Lola Greeno is a Trawlwoolway artist, craftswoman, community leader and curator who works in fibre, sculpture and installation, although she is best known for shell necklaces made from mairineer shells. Having learnt the technique of making shell-strung necklaces from her mother and maternal grandmother, Greeno continues this tradition by passing the techniques onto her children and grandchildren. For Greeno, one of a handful of Trawlwoolway artists practising this traditional art, the act of making her necklaces carries cultural knowledge while acting as an important symbol of survival and resistance for the Trawlwoolway people.
Made in 2001 in Launceston, Tasmania, this long-stranded necklace features an array of iridescent mairineer shells in contrasting green and pink tones. Greeno collects the shells from the Tasmanian coast using environmentally responsible techniques. Such shells are becoming more difficult to find, and this is believed to be due to the loss of the giant kelp forests around Tasmania’s coast as a result of rising ocean temperatures.
Rebecca Evans, Curator of Decorative Arts & Design
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[Book] Reason, Robert. Bravura 21st Century Australian Craft.
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[Book] Cumpston, Nici. Highlights: Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia.
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[Book] Nicholls, Christine. Many Languages, Many Cultures.
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[Book] AGSA 500.